Preface
Acknowledgments

INTRODUCTION: PROCEDURAL CONSIDERATIONS

Typology
Contexts
Comparative treatments

1. POTTERY FIGURINES, FIGURINE-WHISTLES, AND RELATED OBJECTS

General, Comparative, and Summary Comments
Preclassic Period Figures
Late Classic Figurines and Figurine -Whistles
Late Classic Flutes and Whistles
Late Classic Figurine Molds

2. MISCELLANEOUS POTTERY OBJECTS

General, Comparative, and Summary Comments
Unperforated Potsherd Disks
Perforated Potsherd Disks (Spindle Whorls)
Potsherd Disk Fragments
Other Variously Perforated or Worked Potsherds
Spindle Whorls (specially Manufactured)
Pendants or Weights (specially Manufactured)
Beads
Ear ornaments
Flat Stamps
Cylinder Seals or Stamps
Various Forms
Pottery Pellets
Masks
Effigy Vessels
Pestles
Pottery Armatures

3. GROUND STONE

General, Comparative, and Summary Comments
Metates
Manos
Mortars
Barkbeaters
Rubbing and Pounding Stones
Celts
Spindle Whorls
Vessels
Ring-Stones
Miscellaneous Nonutilitarian Stones
Concretions (Unworked)
Mirrors
Jadeite Bloodletter
Beads and Ornaments
Raw Jadeite
Sheet Mica

4. CHIPPED STONE (FLINT)

General, Comparative, and Summary Comments
Choppers or Celts
Projectile Points or Knives
Scrapers
Drills
Chisellike Tools
Pebble Choppers
Cores
Rejects, Fragments, and Otherwise
Unidentified
Scrap (Flakes, Tabular Pieces, and Miscellaneous)
Eccentrics

5. CHIPPED STONE (OBSIDIAN)

General, Comparative, and Summary Comments
Projectile Points or Knives
Scrapers
Drills
Cores
Bladelets
Scrap
Eccentrics

6. MICROSCOPIC ANALYSIS OF CHIPPED FLINT AND OBSIDIAN
By Richard Wilk

Introduction
Choppers or Celts
Adzes or Planes
Chisels or Gouges
Projectile Points or Knives
Scrapers and Use-Nicked Flakes
Comment on Flint Artifacts
Obsidian: Generate
Projectile Points or Knives
Cores
Bladelets, Use-nicked
Comment on Obsidian Artifacts

7. NOTES ON THE OBSIDIAN PRISMATIC BLADES AT SEIBAL AND ALTAR DE SACRIFICIOS
By Raymond V. Sidrys

8. TRACE ELEMENT ANALYSIS BY X-RAY FLUORESCENCE OF OBSIDIAN ARTIFACTS, FROM GUATEMALA AND BELIZE
By Fred W. Nelson, Raymond V. Sidrys, and Richard D. Holmes

Introduction
Methods
Analysis of Data
Discussion

9. SHELL ARTIFACTS

General, Comparative, and Summary Comments
Tinklers
Beads
Adornos
Cut or Scored Shell

10. SEIBAL AND THE MOLLUSKS OF THE USUMACINTA VALLEY
By Lawrence H. Feldman

11. BONE AND RELATED ARTIFACTS

General, Comparative, and Summary Comments
Awls or Punches
Pins
Tubes
Rasps
Smoothing Implements
Beads
Pendants
Adornos
Cut Animal Bone Scrap
Worked Deer Antlers
Pierced Animal Teeth
Turtle Shells

12. VERTEBRATE FAUNAL REMAINS
By Stanley J. Olsen

Introduction
Fish
Amphibians
Reptiles
Birds
Mammals
Taxonomic Vertebrate Faunal List

13. MINOR SCULPTURES AND ARCHITECTURAL ELEMENTS

General, Comparative, and Summary Comments
Thin-Stone Heads
Full-Round Life Forms
Altar or Table Legs
Yokes (?)
Architectural Elements

14. PLASTER AND OTHER MATERIALS

Plaster Samples
Charred Vegetal Substance

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